Monday, September 9, 2013

September 5th Learnings Coming to Life


An entrepreneurs motivation is one of their most powerful assets. Their core principals from which they build a vision and that gives them great strength of will to continue working when problems seem insurmountable because in their hearts they know that they are doing important work. That all sounded great when Stu told us all about it last semester. It’s great in theory up on a power point slide with a video clip of someone famous achieving the impossible.

This semester I’m starting to get a better grasp of just what that means in the real world for me as an individual. The Genesis project’s brief for a green and or socially responsible product, those are some good principals around which to build something important. Have we made a product that is going to change the world? Probably not.

We have started to run into all sorts of problems with our production, there has been continual delays, half starts and reworking. This has really sapped my enthusiasm at times. I have found it difficult personally to find that burning desire to see this product succeed no matter what.

Fortunately for me this course is all about learning. Dealing with these issues of motivation makes me look at myself and say “OK so women’s fashion is not really an area I am overwhelmingly passionate about, what is?” what are the things that will hold the intrinsic motivation that will get me through those hard times, when everything seems to go wrong and there isn’t anyone there to help me. What are the fundamental values that will get me through those darkest hours before the dawn?


I think that if this project had gone a little more smoothly these questions wouldn’t have been raised and brought home with the same force.  As such these difficulties provide a good opportunity to learn, even if the lesson exposes a weakness. Now that I know it’s there I can work at it and find ways to address it or compensate for it. 

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